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    "id": 1415422,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Rahim Dawood",
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        "legal_name": "Abdul Rahim Dawood",
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    "content": "(North Imenti, Independent); Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Let me, first, congratulate Hon. Chepkong’a for bringing this Bill. This Bill is very timely in the sense that it will fix the relation problems between the two Houses of Parliament. I have gone further to make a legislative proposal to do away with the Senate completely, but I do not know if it will see the light of day. Our lawyers are working on it. We need to call a spade a spade. The Senate has its work to do. During the 11th Parliament, there was a time when the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning of the National Assembly called Kenya Airways. As soon as they were done with them, the Senate called them again and did what we had done as a committee of the National Assembly. There was a lot of repetition in what was being done. We need to have guidelines on what the National Assembly can handle and what the Senate can handle. I remember that during the last Parliament, I brought a Bill and it took about a year or two for the two Houses to decide on who between them would look at it. We need certainty on how to handle Bills. If there are Bills that do not need to be taken to the Senate, there should be a clear criterion that indicates that it is only the National Assembly which can deal with such a Bill. In my legislative proposal, which I have asked our legal personnel to draft, I have proposed to do away with governors and have mayors in the counties so that the bad blood amongst governors, Members of Parliament, senators and the Executive, together with the President, can be done away with. I hope my legislative proposal will be prepared and if we have to go for a referendum, I am willing to collect signatures for the referendum so that, at the end of the day, we will have a committee on devolution in the National Assembly. Therefore, we will not have to go to the Senate to fight over a few Bills. With those few remarks, I support."
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